Privacy Policy

At Valley Guard Online, your privacy is important to us. The following is our Privacy Policy, which is effective on October 1, 2013. It is intended to describe how we treat the personal information that we may collect and receive from our visitors. Please note that by visiting and using www.valleyguardonline.com you are accepting the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Information we collect and potential uses

Log files

Every computer connected to the Internet is provided with a domain name (e.g. aol.com) and an IP address (e.g. 196.211.94.253). When a visitor requests a page from the Valley Guard Online website, the web server automatically identifies and logs the request that is made to the server. This information reveals nothing personal about you. Some of the information that may be gathered and logged includes:

Your IP address

The IP address of a referring website, if any

The web page that you may have linked to us from, if any

The make and version of your browser (e.g. Internet Explorer 10.0)

The operating system your computer may be running (e.g. Windows or Macintosh)

Search terms you may have used to find our website

There is nothing special about this information, and the collection of this data is the standardized practice of nearly all web servers on the internet.

We use this information to ensure that your computer is properly equipped to experience the Valley Guard Online website. We also analyze this information for visitation patterns, referring URLs, and search terms to find ways we can improve the experience of our website and to attract more visitors.

Cookies and web beacons

The Valley Guard Online website uses cookies in order to provide visitors with a personalized experience. Cookies allow us to track user trends and provide certain functionality.

Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you choose not to accept cookies, your experience at our website and other websites may be diminished and some features may not work as intended.

User communications

When you send email or other communication to Valley Guard Online, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests, and improve our services.

Information sharing

Generally, the information supplied to Valley Guard Online will only be used in the context for which it was provided. However, Valley Guard Online may share personal information with other companies or individuals outside of Valley Guard Online in the following limited circumstances:

We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to:

Protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of Valley Guard Online, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.

Valley Guard Online uses reasonable precautions to keep the information disclosed to us secure, however, we are not responsible for any breach of security or for any actions of any third parties that receive the information.

Accessing and updating personal information

When you use the Valley Guard Online website and/or Valley Guard Online services, we make good faith efforts to provide you with access to your personal information and either to correct this data if it is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request if it is not otherwise required to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes. We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup disks), or for which access is not otherwise required. In any case where we provide information access and correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort.

Any requests should be sent by email using the Contact link.

Affiliated links and advertisements

Other sites accessible through Valley Guard Online have their own privacy policies and data collection, use and disclosure practices. Please consult each site’s privacy policy. We are not responsible for the policies or practices of third parties. These other sites may send their own cookies to users, collect data, or solicit personal information.

Additionally, other companies that place advertising on Valley Guard Online may collect information about you when you view or click on their advertising through the use of cookies. We cannot control this collection of information. You should contact these advertisers directly if you have any questions about their use of the information they collect.

On behalf of various sponsors, we may provide sponsored links to third-party websites. If you click on a sponsored link or banner ad, a “window” or “frame” containing a third-party’s website may appear in the foreground or background. Unless you are on the Valley Guard Online website, any time that you have moved to another window you should assume that your personal information is being collected, used and disclosed in accordance with the windowed or framed site’s privacy policy, if any such policy exists.

Children’s privacy

In compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), Valley Guard Online is not structured to attract children. Accordingly, we do not intend to collect personally identifiable information from anyone we know to be under 13 years of age.

Changes to this policy

From time to time, we may use visitor/customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our Privacy Policy. If our information practices change at some time in the future, we will post the policy changes to our website to notify you of these changes. We will use for these new purposes only data collected from the time of the policy change forward. If you are concerned about how your information may be used, you should check back at our website periodically.

Governing Law

This website and Privacy Policy are governed by the laws of the State of California.

If you have any additional questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us any time using the Contact link.